The starry sky of tuberculoma

alkiviadis.1961 shared this article with you from Inoreader The starry sky of tuberculoma Via Postgraduate Medical Journal Online First A 17-year-old female on anti-tubercular therapy for pulmonary tuberculosis presented with headache and recurrent episodes of vomiting for 3 months. She had multiple episodes of generalized tonic-clonic seizures with progressive deterioration of sensorium for 1 week prior to hospitalization. Neurological examination revealed meningeal irritation signs and papilloedema in both eyes. The cerebrospinal fluid analysis demonstrated lymphocytic pleocytosis with low glucose and highly elevated protein levels. Contras t-enhanced MRI of the brain showed numerous small, enhancing, discrete and coalescent lesions scattered in the brainstem, basal ganglia and bilateral cerebral and cerebellar hemispheres as well as upper cervical cord (Panel C, D; arrow). Most of the lesions were isointense in T1 weighted imaging (T1WI) (Panel A; arrow) and hypointense in T2 weighted imaging (T2WI) located at the grey–white matter junction (Panel B; arrow) with heterogeneous contrast enhancement and non-enhancing centres, suggestive of a starry sky appearance (Panel C, D) (figure... View on the web Inoreader. Take back control of your news feed. Follow us on Twitter and Facebook.